Can I Just Be Happy Already?
The Daphne Falls band had a really good rehearsal last night. And it just reinforces that this band kind of ticks all the boxes for me.
Via the MPC, I’m doing drums, bass, keys, and some samples too. And it’s really exactly in my zone, and it’s a really great fit for me.
I told them when I started playing keyboards with them, probably a year and a half ago, that this is the only band I really qualify to play keys for. And that’s very true. It’s certainly the only band I qualify right now to do this kind of guy-behind-the-curtain thing for.
But now I feel like I can do a lot of different things. And cover a lot of roles with pads and stuff like that. But I’m trying to keep it clean.
The greater point is that when I’m not doing this, and I’m trying to do other things, it gets hard. And I cannot, for the freaking life of me, remember that I’m good at something and that I should drill down on that.
Yes, try other things. Yes, do other things. I’ve got the acoustic set and stuff like that.
But even for that, I’m trying all kinds of different sampling. And maybe when I’m playing acoustic, I should do the things I’m good at along with it, so it’s easier.
Well, as it turns out, I tried that.
And it flowed.
I did a simple beat. Super filtered down. And some arps.
And guess what?
It worked like magic.
Will the sampling come? The dusty, dark, dude leaning over an MPC sampling guy?
I don’t know.
I don’t care.
Because I’ve kind of got a path forward for this gig at the end of the month.
And I don’t know why I can’t remember to go down the path of least resistance.
And that’s not making things easy.
It’s when I’m playing acoustic guitar and playing over this stuff, I get in the groove and everything sounds better.
Maybe it’s only broken crazy people that do music.
Maybe that’s the whole point.